]]>By: OBQuiethttp://overlawyered.com/2014/03/florida-clever-money-maker/comment-page-1/#comment-272613
Sat, 15 Mar 2014 14:54:38 +0000http://overlawyered.com/?p=44587#comment-272613I don’y really have a problem with not allowing exceptions to traffic or other violation except possble for extreme hardship. Everyone has a reason for why they break a rule that they think is good enough. The goal of the fines should be minimize total costs. Running a red increases the chance of an accident. Insanely high fines increase the avoidance to the point where sudden stops increase accidents. Reasonable fines, fairly enforced, allow individuals to decide if it is worth the cost and risk.

I do have a problem with charging the guy for petitioning for redress in the matter.

And lets not even start on why there are so many lights and so much tiime wasted at them.

Did the public get motivated to drive safer? Of course not. The public began routing around the camera enabled intersections, so the number of citations was dropping, and the program was going to go into the red:

St Pete Mayor Rick Kriseman “At the current pace, the revenues are expected to fall below the costs of the program in September of this year…”

Since this is St Pete, they will have to find some other way to extract revenue from the locals.